Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 05 Feb 2026

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02/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:45:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
2	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
5	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
8	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
10	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	160	Acast	43
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
12	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
15	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
18	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	24	RSS.com	58
19	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
20	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
22	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
24	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
27	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
28	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
29	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
30	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
33	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
34	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
36	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
37	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
38	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
39	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
43	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
45	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
46	Africville Forever	Podstarter Productions / Frequency Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Simplecast	59
47	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
48	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
51	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	381	Audion	58
52	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
55	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
58	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
59	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
60	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
61	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	276	Acast	69
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
64	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	7	PRX	59
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
66	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
67	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
68	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
69	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
70	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
73	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
74	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
75	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
76	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
77	Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	1	Spreaker	69
78	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
79	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	30	Podbean	41
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
81	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
82	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
83	Soothing History for Sleep	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	18	Podbean	58
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
85	The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
86	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
87	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
88	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
89	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
90	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
91	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
92	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
94	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
95	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
97	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
98	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
99	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
100	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Canada

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